He can sense some trends with these ill-fated stores and fast-food outlets.

"They [the locations] seem like retail dead zones — even if there's a new shopping center built nearby, they don't seem that long," he told Business Insider.

Other places, he said, seem abandoned overnight.

"Some places have just walked away overnight and left everything inside," he said. "There was a restaurant that did that in my town — they just walked away overnight. They just left everything on the table and still looks the same today."